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I spent some time this afternoon thinking about Bruce Chatwin. Following my own taxonomy, Chatwin qualifies as weird, joining Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rupert Brooke, and a few others. David Selznick! LOL. It's a personal definition.
Chatwin was brought to mind because I just read James Ivory's memoirs. He (Chatwin) seems like someone with a piece missing, but a piece which you can't quite define.
I just bought Chatwin's letters, helped by a $6 Kindle credit. :-)
I remember when I learned he was married to Elizabeth Chanler. The name without a D, at least in an American context, almost always points to the Astor Orphans and their descendants. Elizabeth Chanler is my ninth cousin once removed.
I logged onto Ancestry immediately and found Elizabeth in my OCL/RI/Williams/Washburn tree. I had already added her marriage info, to a 'Bruce Chatwin' full stop, no dates. Didn't I think to look further? Hell, I had read In Patagonia when it first came out~! LOL It's odd that I wasn't even curious to see if it was the same man. (ps his first name was Charles)
Hmm, almost all of the paragraphs in this entry start with "I". Not the least bit elegant!
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Chatwin was brought to mind because I just read James Ivory's memoirs. He (Chatwin) seems like someone with a piece missing, but a piece which you can't quite define.
I just bought Chatwin's letters, helped by a $6 Kindle credit. :-)
I remember when I learned he was married to Elizabeth Chanler. The name without a D, at least in an American context, almost always points to the Astor Orphans and their descendants. Elizabeth Chanler is my ninth cousin once removed.
I logged onto Ancestry immediately and found Elizabeth in my OCL/RI/Williams/Washburn tree. I had already added her marriage info, to a 'Bruce Chatwin' full stop, no dates. Didn't I think to look further? Hell, I had read In Patagonia when it first came out~! LOL It's odd that I wasn't even curious to see if it was the same man. (ps his first name was Charles)
Hmm, almost all of the paragraphs in this entry start with "I". Not the least bit elegant!
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